And David says, “Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed –

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!